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- Installation Notes Read Me - September 1, 2000
-
- PLEASE READ THIS DOCUMENT CAREFULLY; it contains
- important installation information about Norton
- Internet Security and Norton Personal Firewall.
-
- Note that the release notes may refer to features
- that are not in the product you have installed, as it
- covers three products with different features.
-
- Additional notes may be found in the Start Menu /
- Programs / Norton Internet Security (or Norton Personal
- Firewall) / Product Support / Release Notes.
-
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- Topics include:
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- - Operation with local area networks
- - Installation with the Microsoft Installer
- - Installation on multi-boot systems
- - Installation on machines running server services
- - Passwords are case sensitive
- - Updating web site blocking list on older computers
- - Web Browser compatibility
- - Uninstalling Norton Internet Security
- - LiveAdvisor interaction with older Norton products
- - Upgrading Operating Systems after installing NIS
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- Operation with Local Area Networks
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- After installation, Norton Internet Security will block
- all file and print sharing on your computer. Please
- refer to the document on the Start Menu / Programs /
- Norton Internet Security (or Norton Personal Firewall) /
- Product Support / Operation with Networks for details
- on how to configure the product for secure operation
- with your network.
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- Installation with the Microsoft Installer
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- The Microsoft Installer is a new component for Windows,
- and is required to install Norton Internet Security or
- Norton Personal Firewall. If your operating system
- does not already have this installed, it will automatically
- be added. The MSI installer requires about 25 megabytes
- of space temporarily to install, but will clean up after
- the install is complete. On Windows 98 Second Edition,
- and possibly other conditions, the MSI installer may
- need to reboot the system before Install continues.
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- Installation on multi-boot systems
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- Norton Internet Security and Personal Firewall can be
- used on systems that boot multiple operating systems on
- the same primary partition, such as having Windows 95
- and Windows NT both on the system. However, if you use
- a dual boot system, you must install the product into
- different directories on each operating system - do not
- attempt to use the same directory, or you may have
- conflicts.
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- Installation on machines running server services
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- Norton Internet Security and Personal Firewall are not
- supported on server versions of Windows NT or Windows
- 2000, but it can be installed and operated.
-
- Please review the technical notes on configuring the
- product to support various server processes which need
- access to the internet during the system boot up when
- firewall alerts cannot show. Please note that this can
- affect a Windows NT Workstation or Windows 2000
- Professional installation running IIS or other server-
- oriented services.
-
- The technical notes can be found in the Symantec
- knowledge base at the following URL:
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- http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nip.nsf/docid/2000053008391436
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- Passwords are case sensitive
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- With Norton Internet Security: Family Edition, passwords
- for user accounts are case sensitive. The passwords
- abc$123, Abc$123, and ABC$123 are each considered a
- different password. Make sure your passwords are
- consistent.
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- Updating web site blocking list on older computers
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- With Norton Internet Security: Family Edition on older
- machines (usually with less than 48mb of RAM), the
- LiveUpdate process for updating the web site blocking
- list can take a very long time to update (sometimes
- multiple hours). If you have a limited amount of RAM,
- shut down as many running applications as you can before
- doing a LiveUpdate, and if you do find that it takes a
- very long time, do LiveUpdates when you will not be
- using your computer.
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- Web Browser Compatibility
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- Some features of Norton Internet Security, such as
- the web-based subscription update, are designed for
- modern web browsers. If you do not have a version 4.0+
- browser from Microsoft or Netscape, you may not be able
- to use these features.
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- Uninstalling Norton Internet Security
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- Norton Internet Security hooks into the network setup of
- a computer, and has some complex actions that must be
- taken when uninstalling. It is not recommended that
- uninstall products (such as Norton CleanSweep) be used
- to remove Norton Internet Security, and it should only
- be removed with its own uninstaller. This can be
- accessed from the Start Menu or from the Control Panel.
- Please note that a supervisor account must be loaded
- in Norton Internet Security before an uninstall can be
- done.
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- LiveAdvisor interaction with older Norton products
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- If you will have both this new Norton product installed
- and any 2000 version Norton product installed on your
- computer, the LiveAdvisor button on the menu bar of your
- 2000 version Norton product will be removed. As
- LiveAdvisor is no longer being used for information
- delivery, this is no loss in functionality to you. As was
- outlined in the final LiveAdvisor messages, Symantec has
- replaced the LiveAdvisor delivery mechanism with
- information on the Symantec web site (www.symantec.com)
- and product-specific newsletters (see the web page at
- http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/bulletin/index.html).
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- Upgrading Operating Systems after installing NIS
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- If you install Norton Internet Security or Norton
- Personal Firewall on a Windows 95 or Windows 98 system
- and then upgrade to Windows 2000 or another NT based
- operating system, the product may not function properly.
- To fix this, simply uninstall Norton Internet Security
- or Norton Personal Firewall and re-install it. This
- will fix issues such as disapearing accounts and
- errors on startup caused by the OS upgrade.